Yet another sig change

[Micra]

I thought on that age one it was the cam chain adjuster, certainly
that's what's rattly on my youngest's Micra. Although it maybe that
the oil changes were neglected by the PO.

 

Coo. A Honda engine!

 

Camchain adjusters are indeed a weak point, but only as you suggest,
if oil changes are neglected.

But then they normally still run fine, just noisily.

 

Sig deliberately left in. How the **** do you manage it? I'm skint
keeping one bike and one moderately shite car.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, DR

He sells his body in the dingier areas of Flitwick on a Saturday night.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

DR says...

I buy wisely, and sell wisely too. I don't drink, I smoke roll-ups and I
have learned to live on next to no money, yet still have a good time. It
looks like the SV K3 might have a new home, the Gixer is also near to
leaving here too, the TS50s I have yet to collect. My insurance is about
215 quid fully comp for everything, and 200 quid comp for the Micra. On
top of that is taxing them, but only 3 of them are roadworthy, so I save
there.

When you add up the total value of all those bikes and the Micra it
still wouldn't add up to the cost of a new Triumph Sprint ST, so it's
not like I have a garage full of valuable classics.

 

Or a Fazer 600 - not so sure the camchain tensioner issues on those
are down to a lack of oil changes though.

In the Honda car engine world, (or at least the 90s era), they used
cambelts so avoided any such issues... and compensated for this with
overly frequent belt change intervals (in car terms, anyway).

A small price to pay for some really cracking engines though -
powerful yet reliable, something they managed to achieve without over-
complicating the designs either - manually adjusted tappets and an ECU
anyone can look at and work out what any fault codes it has equate to,
without the need for a visit to a main stealer so they can charge you
for the privilege of them hooking it up to a diagnostics machine, for
example.

Anyone with a bit of mechanic nous can work on the B and D series
engines.

 

When you compare them to other small cars of their time, I think for a
1.0 they go pretty well really... but as I say, you do have to wind
them up a bit.

And handling wise... are, they do tend to sway about a bit, but
they're not unpredictable - you just need a little faith when pushing
on through twisties.

One of the reasons I didn't keep the last one - I found caning it too
much fun. ;-)

 

Champ says...

If anyone says "Pip", I am going to fucking batter them.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

50p? Pip? Be serious.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Fallen apart) Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single"
Norton 850 Commando Kawasaki GTR1400

 

I obviously have a lot of learning to do. I'll give the smoking a
miss though, and maybe I'm a bit too fond of beer...

 

I can make TOG look generous, I can. It's the northern roots, ye
bugger.

 

My Grandpa was Scottish.